Local Mechanical Stimuli Regulate Bone Formation and Resorption in Mice at the Tissue Level

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Schulte, Friederike A ^a   Ruffoni, Davide ^a   Lambers, Floor M ^a   Christen, David ^a   Webster, Duncan J ^a   Kuhn, Gisela ^a   Müller, Ralph ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; OVARIECTOMY;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE REMODELING; BONE RESORPTION; FEMALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OSTEOGENESIS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT-BEARING;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84876516474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062172     Document Type: Article

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